{"id":49532,"date":"2024-11-06T17:23:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T22:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=49532"},"modified":"2024-11-06T21:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T02:33:15","slug":"coin-toss-decides-seat-in-city-council-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2024\/11\/06\/coin-toss-decides-seat-in-city-council-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Coin Toss Decides Seat In City Council Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"49533\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2024\/11\/06\/coin-toss-decides-seat-in-city-council-race\/bburg-council-coin-toss-110624\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bburg-Council-Coin-Toss-110624.jpg?fit=2386%2C2228&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2386,2228\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 15 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1730908882&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.7649998656528&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bburg Council Coin Toss 110624\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bburg-Council-Coin-Toss-110624.jpg?fit=1024%2C956&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49533\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bburg-Council-Coin-Toss-110624.jpg?resize=300%2C280\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bburg-Council-Coin-Toss-110624.jpg?resize=300%2C280&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bburg-Council-Coin-Toss-110624.jpg?resize=1024%2C956&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bburg-Council-Coin-Toss-110624.jpg?resize=768%2C717&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bburg-Council-Coin-Toss-110624.jpg?resize=1536%2C1434&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bburg-Council-Coin-Toss-110624.jpg?resize=2048%2C1912&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nIt was a historic moment Wednesday (11\/6) afternoon at Brandenburg City Hall as a small group gathered to witness a coin toss to break a tie vote between write-in candidates Yolonda Clark and John David Woodward from Tuesday&#8217;s general election.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Both candidates received 32 votes each. At 4 PM Brandenburg Mayor David Pace along with County Clerk Susan Masterson conducted the coin toss and had Clark to call the toss since she was the incumbent that currently holds the seat. Clark called &#8220;heads&#8221; as Mayor Pace flipped the coin and allowed it to land on the floor untouched. The final result concluded that the coin landed tails up providing write in candidate Woodward the sixth seat on the council.<\/p>\n<p>The newly elected council members will begin their term on January 1st.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1080px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-49532-1\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" poster=\"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Brandenburg-City-Hall-was-live-_-By-Brandenburg-City-Hall-mp4-image.jpg\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Brandenburg-City-Hall-was-live.-_-By-Brandenburg-City-Hall.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Brandenburg-City-Hall-was-live.-_-By-Brandenburg-City-Hall.mp4\">http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Brandenburg-City-Hall-was-live.-_-By-Brandenburg-City-Hall.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<h6><em>Video and picture provided by Brandenburg City Hall<\/em>.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a historic moment Wednesday (11\/6) afternoon at Brandenburg City Hall as a small group gathered to witness a coin toss to break a tie vote between write-in candidates Yolonda Clark and John David Woodward from Tuesday&#8217;s general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":49533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archive","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bburg-Council-Coin-Toss-110624.jpg?fit=2386%2C2228&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-cSU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 02:03:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49546,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49532\/revisions\/49546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}